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My previous laptop had indeed its SD slot borked at some point (part of why I don’t care that my new laptop lacks it—I would just not expect it to work reliably

My previous laptop had indeed its SD slot borked at some point (part of why I don’t care that my new laptop lacks it—I would just not expect it to work reliably, so why have another dust collection point). My first laptop’s keyboard had very occasionally working keys in the middle (I blame my pianist fingers bashing them too hard)—I count that as physical I/O, though not a port issue. Is it easy to source replacement I/O boards for Framework?

stavros 3y ago
Yes, but wireless wouldn't have saved you with the latter.
- strogonoff 3y ago
  Sure, as long as the keyboard is separate (wired or not) bashing it would have saved the built-in keyboard for a rainy day.
  - stavros 3y ago
    You may want to get one with replaceable switches, I built one and had one or two switches go bad after a few years, I popped them off, plugged new ones in, and that was it. Lifesaver.
    - strogonoff 3y ago
      Much respect for people building keyboards (a colleague’s done it as well). Since I’d love to have a compact split one (whether wired or not), and apparently it’s quite hard to find them pre-built and in stock, it looks like I’d have to get into building them as well. It’d be a while though, gotta move to a bigger place to have the space to build anything at all. But on the original topic, it appears that modern wireless keyboards fare well enough as far as connection and latency[0] to qualify for gaming, so I wonder if your impression about connection reliability could be a bit outdated? [0] https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/reviews/logitech/g715#test_6756 https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/reviews/logitech/g715#test_6...
      - stavros 3y ago
        A friend builds wireless keyboards, so I guess they must be fine now with ZMK, but the issue I had with mine and QMK was that I never knew if the battery was dying or if the keyboard was just being flaky. I switched to wired and never looked back, but, to be fair, it is for a desktop computer.

stavros 3y ago

Yes, but wireless wouldn't have saved you with the latter.

strogonoff 3y ago
Sure, as long as the keyboard is separate (wired or not) bashing it would have saved the built-in keyboard for a rainy day.
- stavros 3y ago
  You may want to get one with replaceable switches, I built one and had one or two switches go bad after a few years, I popped them off, plugged new ones in, and that was it. Lifesaver.
  - strogonoff 3y ago
    Much respect for people building keyboards (a colleague’s done it as well). Since I’d love to have a compact split one (whether wired or not), and apparently it’s quite hard to find them pre-built and in stock, it looks like I’d have to get into building them as well. It’d be a while though, gotta move to a bigger place to have the space to build anything at all. But on the original topic, it appears that modern wireless keyboards fare well enough as far as connection and latency[0] to qualify for gaming, so I wonder if your impression about connection reliability could be a bit outdated? [0] https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/reviews/logitech/g715#test_6756 https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/reviews/logitech/g715#test_6...
    - stavros 3y ago
      A friend builds wireless keyboards, so I guess they must be fine now with ZMK, but the issue I had with mine and QMK was that I never knew if the battery was dying or if the keyboard was just being flaky. I switched to wired and never looked back, but, to be fair, it is for a desktop computer.